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Show Thursday. March National news Council Shuns Power to Subpoena Testimony - DES MOINES, Iowa (LTD The authority to subpoena and order sworn testimony could aid the National News Council in its investigation of alleged press abuses, but council officials say they do not want those powers. The council, a voluntary independent organization which maintains no tctual control over the press and has no legal or punitive powers in the decisions it session makes, wrapped up a two-da- y at Drake University Tuesday. During the session the group con- Ned Schnurman. council associate on a complaint filed by Elmer Krai. director and a former WCBS-TNew Grand Island, Neb., against the York City editor, said, "The concept National Enquirer for stories about that the news council will condemn a Unidentified Flying Objects. The counnews organization which refuses to cil decided to delay action because cooperate is wrong." members felt they did not have enough He added, however, a lack of facts in the case. The council found as "warranted" a cooperation from news organizations in the council's investigations makes its complaint against columnist Jack resulting decisions more difficult to Anderson and the United Features Synreach. dicate filed by Nicaraguan officials. He said for example a number of The council said Anderson retracted a national media, such as the New York column concerning Nicaragua months Times and tabloid National Enquirer, after he wrote it but the syndicate refuse to work with the council in any failed to attention its subscribers to the way. retraction. The council found as unwarranted Despite the lack of enthusiasm on the part of such media, council members two complaints against "60 Minutes " The first concerned the program's inreported more were becoming involved not only in coverage of and terview with Hustler publisher Larry cooperation with the council, but in Flynt. The interview was broadcast financially supporting it. during his recent obscenity trial on the "The news organizations are weekend after the unsequestered jury gradually becoming more comfortable took the case The second complaint with our handling of the decisions," concerned the program's handling of a said Ralph Otwell. editor of the Florida hind-- f rad scheme. Chicago The council spent 90 minutes Tuesday sidered a number of complaints against the news media and general freedom of the press issues. The council, founded in 1973, has been slow to gain acceptance from media members because many journalists fear it is the first step toward government control of the press a charge vehemently denied by the council. "We're not a legal body and we don't want to be," said legal counsel Sally Stevens. "When you end up with t?stimony under oath and subpoenas, everybody brings their lawyers in and the big guns win every time." 24. 197 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah-ra- ge Solon Seeks EPA Director Launches Brass Cut Drive on 17 Chemicals - In Military WASHINGTON (UPI) Environmental protection chief Douglas Costle. two weeks on the job, is WASHINGTON LTD - At least one launching a campaign against 17 senator finds it hard to believe "it chemicals that pose threats of cancer, takes more generals and admirals to genetic or nerve disorders and other troubles. wage peace than war." Sen. Sam Nunn. IHia Costle says the chemicals may be spoke up at a Senate armed services responsible for "silent epidemics" and subcommittee on military manpower urges "haste, but not panic," in dealing problems As three generals and an with them. In times past, the chemical industry admiral listened, Nunn said that in 1968. at the height of the Vietnam War, has sometimes resisted efforts by the each admiral or general commanded Environmental Protection Agency to an average of 2.600 persons in teh deal with such threats. This time, within hours of Costle's announcement military. Today. Nunn said, there is one Tuesday, one of the industry giants general or admiral tor every 1.800 backed his campaign i . Monsanto Co of St Louis, which persons. "I find it hard to believe that it takes already is preparing to halt production more generals and admirals to wage of one of the chemicals and makes or peace than war," said the former Coast uses three of the others, said it will Guard seaman. "Clearly some action is "cooperate fully" and share with EPA called for to reduce this number." information from its files. Nunn suggested the number of top "We believe any addition to our brass be cut 20 per cent over the next knowledge of these substances will be five years, at the rate of 4 per cent a useful and in the national interest," said a Monsanto spokesman. year. "This would give us one general or Costle promised new EPA regulaadmiral for everv 2.200 men," he said. tions next month on two of the 33 - chemicals PCB, used in electrical insulation; and chlorofluorocarbons, a spray can propellant. He said he is launching "serious examination" of the other 15 as the first step toward regulatory action. They include arsenic, lead, mercury, asbestos, and the flame retardant Tris used in children's clothing but under investigation as a cause of cancer. "We have neglected the subtle but lethal effects of chemicals for decades." Costle said in his first news conference. "Now we must extend the frontiers of scientific knowledge to evaluate what those risks really are and find ways to control them. We must act in haste but not in panic." Costle acknowledged that minimal risks "are inescapable," but said the EPA is zeroing in on "chemical substances for which there exists significant evidence of injury to human health or the environment." Of the 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention 1787, 16 failed to sign the completed document on Sept. 17 of that year. Utah Briefs SALT LAKE CITY Defensive Driv(UPI) - ing Week is scheduled April 3 9 according to the Utah Safety Council. The purpose of the observance is to recruit Utah drivers to enroll in defensive driving courses, said Dr. Howard Latimer, president of the council. "These defensive driving courses that we are offering to this com- munity's present and future drivers will enable them to fully shoulder the responsibility of "' driving," said Latimer. "The courses will train them to be constantly on the defense against traffic situations and conditions which bring about accidents," said Latimer. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) University of Utah Professor Dr. Elizabeth Hayes will receive the National - Dance Association's highest award Sunday. NDA will present Dr. Hayes with its Heritage Award at a luncheon in Seattle during its national r v , ? xa i - i ---r- H I . . , ' -- ; ..;-l- - convention. Dr. Hayes was chosen for her "outstanding contributions in the development of dance education a during A supermarket chain lifetime career." shouldn't have the same phone system as an insurance agency. She is professor and director of modern dance at Utah, where she has taught for 36 years. She received her bachelor's from West degree Virginia University and a master's from Wisconsin. Her doctoral degree is from Stanford. SALT LAKE CITY Paul Cracroft. 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